Pachkalguri is a village in the Alipurduar I

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in the Alipurduar subdivision of the

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in the state of

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Geography

Location

Pachkalguri is located at .

Area overview

Alipurduar district is covered by two maps. It is an extensive area in the eastern end of the

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in West Bengal. It is undulating country, largely forested, with numerous rivers flowing down from the outer ranges of the

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in Bhutan. It is a predominantly rural area with 79.38% of the population living in the rural areas. The district has 1 municipal town and 20 census towns and that means that 20.62% of the population lives in the urban areas. The scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, taken together, form more than half the population in all the six community development blocks in the district. There is a high concentration of tribal people (scheduled tribes) in the three northern blocks of the district. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Civic administration

CD block HQ

Headquarters of Alipurduar I CD block is at Pachkalguri.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Pachkalguri had a total population of 3,257 of which 1,632 (50%) were males and 1,625 (50%) were females. There were 348 persons in the age range of 0 to 6 years. The total number of literate people in Pachkalguri was 2,206 (75.83% of the population over 6 years).

Education

Pijushkanti Mukherjee Mahavidyalaya was established at Sonapur in 2015. Affiliated with the

University of North Bengal University of North Bengal (abbreviated as NBU) is a public state collegiate major research university in North Bengal region of West Bengal, which is located in Raja Rammohanpur, Siliguri, Darjeeling district, in the Indian state of West ...

, it offers courses in arts.

Healthcare

Pachkalguri Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, is the major government medical facility in the Alipurduar I CD block.

References

{{Alipurduar district Villages in Alipurduar district